Monday, September 28, 2015

Air Canada to place 787-9 on Calgary-Frankfurt route for April 2016

Just for the month of April you can experience flying on Air Canada's newest aircraft, the Boeing 787-9 between Calgary and Frankfurt. According to airlineroute.net the new planes will be on Calgary and Toronto to Frankfurt for April.  This will be a great time to try the plane out! Might have to look at doing a family trip to Europe in April just to try it out and also burn some Aeroplan miles.

Calgary – Frankfurt
AC844 YYC1750 – 1055+1FRA 789 D
AC845 FRA1330 – 1505YYC 789 D

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Air Canada’s Destination Bonus Event - Earn up to 10,000 Bonus Aeroplan Miles on select flights worldwide

Air Canada has launched a massive new bonus Aeroplan mile event for flights across the globe. Whether you are flying within Canada, to the U.S., Europe or Asia there is a good chance you can earn extra miles on those Air Canada flights.

Offer Details
Earn up to 10,000 Bonus Aeroplan Miles on select Air Canada flights within Canada, to the U.S., Europe or Asia. Register Online (Registration is required) Register and book by Nov 15 for travel until Dec 13, 15


Earn 50% Bonus Aeroplan Miles per round-trip on select flights within Canada in Flex or Latitude fares. Calgary flights are Terrace, Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto, Regina, Winnipeg
Earn Double Aeroplan Miles per round-trip on select flights within Canada in Business Class, Premium Economy and Premium rouge. Calgary flights are Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg


Earn 50% Bonus Aeroplan Miles per round-trip on select flights between Canada and the USA in Economy Class. Calgary flights are Houston
Earn Double Aeroplan Miles per round-trip on select flights between Canada and the USA in Business Class and Premium rouge. Calgary flights are Las Vegas


Earn 5,000 Bonus Aeroplan Miles per round-trip on select flights between Canada and Europe in Economy Class. Calgary flights are Frankfurt, London
Earn 7,500 Bonus Aeroplan Miles per round-trip on select flights between Canada and Europe in Business Class, Premium Economy and Premium rouge.  Calgary flights are Frankfurt, London


Earn 7,500 Bonus Aeroplan Miles per round-trip on select flights between Canada and Asia in Tango or Flex fares. Calgary flights are Tokyo
Earn 10,000 Bonus Aeroplan Miles per round-trip on select flights between Canada and Asia in Business Class, Premium Economy, Premium rouge and Latitude. Calgary flights are Tokyo

 

Monday, September 14, 2015

WestJet to serve London Gatwick from Calgary, Edmonton, St. John's, Toronto, Vancouver & Winnipeg


Earlier this year WestJet announced they will start flying to London Gatwick in 2016 with their new 767s. What they didn't reveal is which cities in Canada they would fly from. Thanks to Airlineroute.net we now know they are making an aggressive launch by serving LGW from 6 cities. WestJet have not revealed this themselves although it looks like they will be doing so tomorrow as they have press conferences scheduled in all 6 cities.


Here is the planned operation:

eff 06MAY16 Calgary – London Gatwick 5 weekly
WS001 YYC1855 – 1049+1LGW 76W x16
WS002 LGW1055 – 1355YYC 76W x16 (eff 08MAY16)

eff 06MAY16 Toronto – London Gatwick 1 daily
WS003 YYZ2105 – 0925+1LGW 76W D
WS004 LGW1315 – 1628YYZ 76W D

eff 06MAY16 Vancouver – London Gatwick 6 weekly
WS022 YVR1750 – 1124+1LGW 76W x6
WS023 LGW1255 – 1540YVR 76W x6 (eff 08MAY16)

eff 07MAY16 Edmonton – London Gatwick 2 weekly
WS026 YEG1905 – 1044+1LGW 76W 16
WS027 LGW1055 – 1338YEG 76W 16

eff 07MAY16 St. John’s NFLD – London Gatwick 1 daily
WS024 YYT2335 – 0800+1LGW 73W D
WS025 LGW0920 – 1137YYT 73W D

eff 07MAY16 Winnipeg – London Gatwick 1 weekly
WS028 YWG2100 – 1102+1LGW 76W 6
WS029 LGW1250 – 1551YWG 76W 6

Based on this schedule it looks like WestJet will have at least three of their 767's in service by the time the routes launch as the YVR, YYC, and YYZ flights all depart on the same day within 15 minutes of each other. The St. John's flight starting the next day will operate with a 737. Although it is only one flight per week I'm sure Winnipeggers are happy to see they get London service!! All of the other cities currently get year round or seasonal London service from other airlines. Still to launch from 6 cities to London Gatwick it sure looks like WestJet wants to take a bite out of the competition!

Thoughts everyone?